Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Premier Gömbös' position was delicate. He is a graduate of the Military Training School for Gymnastics & Fencing, a member of the Hungarian military elite, a crack swordsman and pistol shot, wounded and decorated in the War and now a Field Marshal. The Hungarian military code of honor demanded that Soldier Gömbös give Civilian Eckhardt satisfaction, as he has already done for many another man. But Politician Gömbös, as realistic as he is vain, might be seriously compromised by a duel. For as Premier it is his uncongenial...
Under the guiding hand of Marshal George Peabody Gardner, Jr., of Boston, a record number of 1910 classmates, their wives, and children hit town at 2:00 o'clock Monday afternoon to invest the Yard dormitories for four frantic days of twenty-fifth reunioning...
Retired from active service since January, little General Maxime Weygand, favorite of Marshal Foch and onetime Inspector General of the French Army, emerged from obscurity last week to take part in the ceremony of relighting the Eternal Flame under the Arc de Triomphe. He was greeted with wild cheers. One passer-by refused to take his hat off. That started a fist fight. Nationalists in the crowd suddenly began to shout: "Put Weygand in Power! Weygand for France!" His admirers nearly tore for the clothes off the little soldier, forced police to hustle him to safety. It was a small...
...wedding day was warm and clear. Before the Storkyrka, where all the Kings descending from Napoleon's Marshal Bernadotte have been crowned, stood Sweden's famed Grenadiers of the Guard in the original deerskin uniforms, jack boots, silver breastplates and cocked hats first presented by Russia's Catherine the Great...
...loudspeakers. Inside the Opera House the brown-shirted Reichstag had been called to order by paunchy Hermann Wilhelm Göring. It had risen, once to honor the memory of Bavarian Minister of Education Hans Schem, killed in an airplane accident, once to do the same for the late Marshal Pilsudski of Poland. It had welcomed the newly elected delegates from the Saar making their first appearance in the Reichstag since the War, and had thundered applause when Minister of the Interior Frick announced the completion of Germany's new conscription law (see col. 1.). Then cried Premier...